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Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend?
I'm not just looking to be entertained, I would like to learn cool stuff about business and get inspired along the way.
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- blockwriter 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo
- kouru225 3y agoAlso gotta recommend Burden of Dreams, the making of Fitzcarraldo, which is arguably an even crazier story
- caeciliusest 3y agoTetris
- vimy 3y agoThe Founder. Not a movie but Halt and Catch Fire was really great.
- Kaibeezy 3y agoThe Founder really shows the sort of relentless idea-filtering and -selection process an entrepreneur has to commit to. Could he have been a bit nicer? Probably not a high correlation for the personality type that’s comfortable with culling.
- readyplayernull 3y agoI found The Profit series to be inspiring.
- keiferski 3y agoThe Social Network is a great film that manages to be inspiring and critical of its subject at the same time. Margin Call is about finance, not entrepreneurship, but it’s one of my favorite films. It only lasted a season or two, but How to Make it in America was pretty inspiring as well.
- joshxyz 3y ago- Narcos (about Pablo Escobar) - Super Pumped (about Uber)
- MrFots 3y agoThe Toy Capitalism, Cronyism, sticktoitiveness, and, for the right price, you can buy anything.
- rahimnathwani 3y agoThe Bridge to Nowhere Lord of War Boiler Room I second the other recommendation for Tetris.
- fruity231 3y agoHow to make money selling drugs (2012), followed by Narconomics: How To Run a Drug Cartel book.
- robsun 3y ago"Silicon Valley". It's not a movie, but a documentary TV series about startup scene in '00 ;)
- quickthrower2 3y agoSitcom? Maybe a bit of both
- Kaibeezy 3y agoIs rolling the million-sided dice to win unicorn treats from VC/PE really even about “entrepreneurship”? These are: - Chef - Big Night - Joy - Jerry Maguire - The Founder - Spare Parts (arguably) - The one about the guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers and spent his whole life suing the megacorp that stole his idea
- mejutoco 3y agoI really like this list. I would only add: - Indie game: the movie - Moneyball
- ido 3y agoIG:TM is a controversial choice! It is generally considered very cherry-picked and sets an unrealistic view of the indie game market. It's a fun, feel-good movie no doubt, but I wouldn't recommend treating it as anything more than entertainment.
- mejutoco 3y agoI saw so much suffering in that movie it never ocurred to me that it could be seen as a feel-good movie. The devs working on the game for 2-3 years while the life was collapsing around them. I found it cathartic but not a happy story.
- gabrielsroka 3y ago> windshield wiper movie Flash of Genius
- qzuipo 3y ago"Breaking Bad". Not a movie but series. Replace drug with any other product and the ingenuity of Walter White to scale the operations, hiring people, shifting operations to different locations, responding to competition makes it interesting.
- BjoernKW 3y ago"Top Boy" qualifies as well in that respect (a new, and quite likely final, season has just been released). While not exactly as well-known as "Breaking Bad", it not only offers an insightful perspective on the drug trade itself but also on a specific London subculture. Fundamentally, that show is about business and entrepreneurship. Sure, the industry might seem more than just a little shady and its methods often are ruthless, but basic business principles still apply (to quote one of the main characters: "Buy cheap, sell dear.").
- splintercell 3y agoAn amazing TV series about a talented young man who bails out on his ambitions, and becomes a family man, only to grow old at an unsatisfying job, and finding himself facing his mortality, at which point he decides to change his life and achieves his true potential.
- world2vec 3y ago"Straight Outta Compton" (2015).
- rasz 3y agoAntitrust from 2001, its about Github.
- dev_0 3y ago[dead]
- dp-hackernews 3y agoStartUp (TV Series) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5028002/ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5028002/
- hulitu 3y ago- Office space -The 12 chairs
- elevaet 3y agoPrimer!
- kb10g 3y agoGattaca 1997
- franz68 3y agoThe short series about Spotify and ofc The Founder
- singleshot_ 3y agoPrimer
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoThe Aviator (2004) Also the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged_(film_series)
- defrost 3y agoNot exactly good investment advice there though: The trilogy received predominantly negative critic reviews and the aggregate USA box office is just under $9 million, with each film performing worse than the last on both accounts. Atlas Shruugged trilogy represents $35 million in, 9 million return and no recognition of merit.
- luxpir 3y agoPi. The insanity but absolute need to push on with the mission.
- sourabh03agr 3y agoThe founder and Air are must watch. Also, Guru (Bollywood) is a nice one - story of Dhirubhai Ambani, the man who founded Reliance industries
- muzani 3y agoRiot On! It's an old story about the pre-touchphone days, but the same lessons still carry over.
- Austin_Conlon 3y agoThe documentary on General Magic.
- Gooblebrai 3y agoHalt and Catch Fire Seriously underrated. Based on the 80s.The most realistic drama about entrepreneurship and relationships I've ever watched.
- rurban 3y agoStartup, the documentary
- throwaway167 3y agoKitchen Nightmares, UK version. Operations, People, Marketing, Sane decision making, Passion. But not the US version. That's just drama.
- kouru225 3y agoMcCabe and Mrs Miller is a great movie about creating a prostitution business in the Wild West. There Will Be Blood also (for obvious reasons)